The Disney Photos

Okay folks.  I won't bore you with more tales from Disneyland, but we did just get our PhotoPass CD in the mail and it has all the "nice" pictures taken of us.  We'll just post our favorites as opposed to all 100....

This was from our trip with Mommy in December!

Same trip....

Here's where our last trip begins...

Daddy did this first thing and he actually had almost no one else on the ride with him!

Mommy loves this picture because you can see Cara was doing her happy run!

It's Periwinkle! (From the new Tinker Bell movie!)

End of January is a great time to go!

One of our absolute favorite pics!

Caw Caw! Roar!

Merida sat on the ground and drew on our poster.  We loved it!

Meeting Tiana!

Boy I love Space Mountain

Tinker Bell got in our picture!

These are Mommy's favorite series of pictures!

Our last ride on Space Mountain.  We decided to pretend to cry!

I'm holding Tinker Bell again!

Phew! That was a lot of pictures and it turns out we actually have 241 pictures on that CD!!! We didn't even do a quarter of them for you!

The Preslars Come!

My cousins came! My cousins came! And my Oma!  We had a glorious weekend with them.  We played outside.  Played outside again.  Oh yeah, and played outside.  We got filthy.  You could almost taste spring! We spent time at our house outside, we went to two parks, Snow Canyon State Park, and finished our journey off on good ol' Red Hill.

So much fun.

She doesn't exactly looked thrilled at holding hands does she?

Oh and did I mention frozen yogurt?  Yeah.  We got frozen yogurt.

What blogging slump?

Mommy might be experiencing a little post-Disneyland depression.  It creeps up suddenly and then she is all teary eyed and says something like "some day...we'll go again!"

Anyway, so we apologize for the blogging slump.  We did however get our fancy pictures in the mail today.  You have been warned.

But today's post is not about Disneyland.  It's about what we've been doing since then!!

We've played at the park on some of our nice almost spring days...

Cara is trying to give me bunny ears!

I went climbing and showed Mommy how to climb "Siena's Climb".

Actually, a really great story about this climbing trip.  I hadn't climbed in a while and Aunt Angie was trying to help me figure out where to put my feet and Grandpa was talking and they were getting all technical when I suddenly looked back at her and exclaimed, "Oh! I really like your shirt!"  That about summed up that day of climbing for me.

Another big thing, I got to show off my gymnastic routine for Mommy and Grandma.  Unfortunately they had us perform the routine a little far away from them so they didn't get any pictures, but here I am saluting!

We've had so much fun playing with Lexi lately.  She thinks we are so funny and likes to play Cinderella with us.

The Finale Part 2

Our final two days at the parks were awesome because we also got to go stay with Grandpa Great and Grandma Bev and Chloe.  I admit we were mostly sleeping when we were there, but we still got to play with Chloe a little bit!  We slept in a bit on Friday and then were part of the rope drop at Disneyland Park.  We got so much done in that first HOUR!

We rode this ride twice in a row.  It's our new favorite!

Then we did some fancy footwork in the Princess lines to get all but one princess to sign a poster!  We will need to wait to show you all the pictures for when our fancy photos get here but these should suffice.

We even got to play with Merida!! She drew herself into our poster.  And we were the only ones there so she just hung out with us which we loved.

We put to good use a bunch of rider swap passes that we had been saving up.  Mommy had even got some from her previous trip and they worked!

This is what Cara would do while I was on the big rides.  She didn't mind waiting in line and would just entertain herself with things she'd find on the ground.

We stayed for the fireworks on Friday which Daddy had never done with us and this time Cara was even awake.  We enjoyed very sticky cotton candy!

Saturday morning, the last day our passes were good for, brought with it the unusual offer of an extra magic hour for passholders!  The only problem was that it started at 7 am!  Mommy really wanted to be there that early but she let us all sleep an extra half hour and we got in at 7:30.  We had the park almost to ourselves which was good because we got in a final ride on Midway Mania waiting in NO line at all! We weren't planning on staying all day so we kind of had to pick and choose what we did.  Only favorite rides!  Cara apparently did NOT get enough sleep since she spent a few hours suddenly bursting into tears.

Grandpa has since informed that this would be his face after two hours at Disneyland with Mommy!

Daddy fixed this by scooping her up and taking her into Disneyland and getting in the long line for Peter Pan just like she wanted.

We enjoyed taking our very first ride on the Davy Crockett Canoes.  It's hard work when you have kiddos according to my mommy! But I loved it and said I wanted to do it AGAIN.

Then it was really time to start our good byes.  We took silly pictures.

And then waited in a ridiculously long line for our final ride, Pirates of the Caribbean.  (Mommy's choking up just thinking about it!)

We took a final picture in front of the under construction Main Street Train Depot,

And we hit the road.  Mommy really did cry leaving the parking structure and then would off and on get choked up thinking about it.  Cara and I were mostly just tired.

It was a great finale.  Stay tuned for just two more posts about Disney.  One with our "good" pictures and one with Mommy's "Disney How To's".